Marvin Bader, a member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame for his work with ABC Sports and the Olympics, died January 2, 2012, in Escondido, California. He was 85.

Bader worked on the Olympics from 1968 to 1992, during which he way a key participant in the successful coverage of the games on ABC. As vice president of Olympic operations, Bader oversaw production operations and created the modern accreditation system.

Sports broadcasting was not Bader's goal when he broke into television. After moving from Chicago to New York, he became a commercial coordinator for ABC. He later moved to the sports side, where he spent almost 30 years.

He also planned international shows like the Wide World of Sports.

He made the cost estimates that won ABC Sports the bid to televise Lake Placid's 1980 Games and was the first American to serve as host and domestic broadcaster of the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.